Sunday, June 29, 2008

COMMENTS: A series victory against the Angels, with a chance of a series sweep? Last night's gutty shutout performance by The Law Offices of Billingsley, Broxton, and Saito earned the Dodgers a win even when their offense--back to sputtering offense, mind you--can't even muster a single hit (yet still picks up the win!). Lackey has a streak of 13 quality starts dating back to last year; Lowe has been unpredictable of late (3-3 in his last seven starts). If we are to hope for any fallen angels today, Lowe had better bring his A-game--if the last Dodger day game is any indication, the Dodger bats will likely take the day off.

CarMax sponsors a viewer poll where people text message their answers. Today's question: Have the Dodgers (a) met, (b) exceeded, or (c) fallen short of expectations so far this season? 84% of voters picked (c).

Nope. i "only" follow MLB, LVPB (venezuelan winter baseball), Calcio, Champions League, Venezuelan national soccer team and F1, on a regular basis.Soccer's World Cup, Eurocup, Copa America, Olimpics and related events are another level.I used to follow NBA (i was a Lakers fan), but basketball and i had a bad breakup.

Someone we loved very dearly, who was the most devoted basketball you could imagine, died tragically, in a very unexpected way.Somehow, we associate basketball with him, and neither of us (my brothers and I) could be able to follow basketball again.We even swore we'll ever set foot again on the local basketball arena, it brings us lots of memories.

Stace, being a sports fan is a lifestyle!, though baseball is the love of my life.I have always managed to balance everything. In fact, i've reduced my social life because i'm devoted to school, so sports actually help me to get some rest.

True. My theory is, using the Dodgers as an example: when the Dodgers do well, take all the happiness out of it you want, because why not? But when they don't do well, don't get too upset because it doesn't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things.

Eric, I understand your theory, but it will start to matter as we go down the stretch of the season come August and September. Right now it's not do or die, but they just don't seem like they can string more than 2 wins together since the beginning of May.

And Stace, in a sense I agree, that as the season progresses, the Dodgers' offensive impotence will seem to matter more. That is, unless they are way out of contention, in which case it will matter less.

The only reason they've managed to stay in second is because of the D-Backs and their losing ways. That and the fact that no one else in the NL West is winning games either. If it was a different division they would probably be in last place. It's hard to believe they are 4 games under .500 and still in second place. I hope it will hold up for the rest of the season.

I read somewhere, someone describing the NL West as a softball league. My older brother says the NL West lowered its category from AAA ball to AA ball and going down.Since he's a Braves fan, i'll describe their failure to win multiple World Series and he'll answer: "at least we manage to multiple playoffs games, at once".But he's a Barcelona Fc fan so i've got an arsenal to terrorize him.

At least they made an effort. To tell the truth, Stace, for somewhat reason Piazza was not really loved (i didn't love him back then, though i'd love his numbers). Sax and Karros will be more than enough ;)

Karina, why do you say he wasn't loved? Because he was asking for too much money? He is one of the only players that I think still prospered after he left the Dodgers. Everyone one else seemed to go downhill. Jeff Weaver, Todd Hollandsworth, Raul Mondesi, etc...